Bacterium
parabacteroides merdae
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A genus of obligately anaerobic, Gram-negative, rod shaped bacteria assigned to the phylum Bacteroidetes. This species is indole negative, hydrolyzes starch, but not gelatin, requires vitamin K and hemin for growth, hemolytic on rabbit's blood agar, reduces neutral red and resazurin, produces hydrogen sulfide after 5 days, and does not utilize lactate, threonine or gluconate. P. merdae, also known as Bacteroides merdae, is commensal to the human intestinal tract and is rarely associated with infections.NCI ThesaurusU.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
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Any bacterial organism that can be assigned to the species Parabacteroides merdae.CDISC TerminologyClinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC), 2021
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